(PDF) Hole in My Heart: Love and Loss in the Fault Lines of Adoption Full

(PDF) Hole in My Heart: Love and Loss in the Fault Lines of
Adoption Full

(PDF) Hole in My Heart: Love and Loss in the Fault Lines of Adoption Full
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In the days before Roe v. Wade, an ambitious young journalist, abandoned by
her beau, leaves Michigan for a dream job on the city desk of a Rochester,
New York newspaper. Burned once, she's eager for love, but as the only Girl
in the newsroom, she's more concerned with finding allies and making
friends.When a new leading man appears, she recognizes a kindred spirit.
Soon her bylined stories claim front-page space. However, when she becomes
pregnant, she must switch her attention from deadlines to decisions.With
adoption on the horizon, she pushes her man to make a commitment. Sadly,
he wants her, but not their daughter. Will Dusky ever find the little girl she
longed to raise, and if she does, what will be the fallout from their years
apart?In Hole in My Heart, the author uses her skills as a journalist to report on
the social history and long-term consequences of family separation. If you like
true stories with strong women narrators, you 8217 ll love Lorraine Dusky 8217
s timely and heart-rending memoir about motherhood, identity and love.Written
by a leader in the movement to reform adoption practices and the first to come
out of the era's closet of shame. With footnotes, bibliography and index.